CassandrichFolks do realize the people telling you QC will be a thing and break RSA and EC are exactly the same folks who were telling you AGI will be a thing, who were the exact same folks telling you the metaverse is the next big thing, who are the exact same folks telling you NFTs would take off, who were the exact same folks telling you bitcoin would replace Visa, who were....
sam@dalias Gutmann's talk on this is great as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa4Ok7WNFHY
Peter Gutmann - Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks
@thesamesam LOL the record is still 35? I figured there would have been at least one new non-fraudulent claim in the past few years but apparently no. 🤣
@thesamesam Some of the talk is bs though. Like at 15:30, the part about repeating the experiment until you get the result you want. If you can do that, you *did* successfully factor, because it's trivial to test classically if a factorization is correct. Of course nobody has ever used this form of (non-)cheating, as he notes. The reason is that the number of retries you need grows exponentially.